British show about subliminal suggestion

Does anybody know the name of the show or of the star of a British

Mike...

Is this the one?

melody_ann_ryan...

Yes! Thanks!

television show about subliminal suggestion? The show features a host
that manipulates people into doing what he wants them to do without
their knowledge. For example, he may draw a picture and then have the
targets draw a picture of "anything" and then it is revealed that they
draw a very similar picture to his. Or on another show he went to the
dog track and is able to convince track agents to pay out on losing
bets.

I saw this show on Multishow in Brazil and it appears to be have been
made in the last few years. At one point the host mentoined that he
worked for Channel 4. He is a young, thin man with dark hair and a
goatee and mustache.

Anim8rFSK...

Whatever it is, it's a hoax. Subliminal suggestion is nonense, made
popular almost entirely by one deranged individual, Wilson Bryan Key,
the same way we can trace the Bermuda Triangle hoax back to the fake
book by Berlitz.

Steven L....

If you can't help her with the name of the show, don't change the
subject to discuss the content of a show you haven't seen.

BTW, when I was a young kid living in New York City (the home of Madison
Avenue, of course!), we used to see newspaper ads from advertising
agencies offering their services--including subliminal advertising:

"We're specialists in subliminal advertising, a highly sophisticated
form of advertising! Call for the best!"

When I was a kid, I used to clip my favorite subliminal ads out of
magazines. Kool Cigarette ads were the most notorious examples. I had
a whole collection of subliminal ads, the way other kids collected stamps.

melody_ann_ryan...

Well, I am not saying that is not a hoax. I just want to find out more
about the show so I can make my own interpretation but I do not know
its name. The show uses more than subliminal suggestion and perhaps
does not use it at all. I was just speaking in the generic sense. The
host claims to be an expert in judging human body language/psychology
and in covertly implanting suggestions in people's minds. He did a
segment where he would tell people there occupation (within a range-for
example he said one guy was a policeman but he actually worked in a
police station in an unspecified other role and then guessed that the
guys actual dream job was to be a pro golfer when he told him to
imagine doing his dream job). Of course that could have conceivably
been the 20th person interviewed after 19 wrong guesses. In order
segments he would tell people to draw a shape and then use "curvy"
words and people would inevitably draw circles. They

I want to see if there was any critical reporting done on this man or
his show.

Anim8rFSK...

If you come up with his name, hop over to The Amazing Randi's site and
look him up.

melody_ann_ryan...

I could not find any where on Randi's site to find a list of hoaxsters
some of his time debunking psychics and religious miraclists as well by
replicating their tricks and then showing how they were done.